When the Left Distances Itself From Black Lives Matter, Far Right Policies Win | Truthout

Alec Karakatsanis explains how both Republicans and Democrats have used the backlash to increase the powers of police.
— Read on truthout.org/articles/when-the-left-distances-itself-from-black-lives-matter-far-right-policies-win/

The Hollowed Vocabulary: Jewish Voice for Peace and the Institutional Capture of Anti-Zionism

All of a sudden we were navigating a new organizing terrain where everyone became self-avowed anti-zionists almost overnight. The act of people calling themselves anti-zionists was completely decoupled from political implications and became a rhetorical move similar to how people will declare that they aren’t racist, without ever really considering what racism is, how it functions, or what it actually entails to be anti-racist. Just as claiming to be anti-racist in the United States indicates alignment with certain political commitments — reparations, an end to mass incarceration, material accountability for those who have upheld and/or benefitted from white supremacy — being anti-zionist demands more than vibes.

— Read on thecall.ps/p/the-hollowed-vocabulary-jewish-voice

Cow Pastor: Song Lines of Memory – the A-Line

In or around 1995, the Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020) bought a property, which included a three bedroom dwelling, in Christ Church, Barbados, in the vicinity of the international airport. Brathwaite referred to this property as Cow Pastor or Cow Pasture. Shortly after purchase, the Barbadian government informed him he could neither build on nor extend the premises, which included an old slave outbuilding. Among the reasons given was the proposed construction of a road related to the functioning of the airport. In an email dated March 5, 2005,1 which was circulated widely, Brathwaite pleaded his case to the public at large. Within the contents of that letter, which could be better described as a manifesto, he included a 9-point program which set out a two-pronged vision for the property: it was to be his place of residence for himself and his wife where he could collect and store his archives which had been scattered
— Read on alinejournal.com/arts-and-culture/cow-pastor-song-lines-of-memory/

Legal Support | Chuffed | Non-profit charity and social enterprise fundraising

This lawsuit is another thinly veiled attempt to weaponize the legal system to intimidate us into silence and incapacitate any form of resistance against the zionist entity’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. The Amerikkkan bourgeois class and its fascist collaborators have always crafted the law to repress, imprison, and murder anyone deemed an “enemy of the state.”

As absurd as this lawsuit against us may seem at face value, it nonetheless threatens to set a dangerous precedent with regards to First Amendment rights. A defeat in this case risks an even greater expansion of the state’s ability to surveil the movement, financially devastate organizations, and extract information to use against us for further repression.
— Read on chuffed.org/project/193502-legal-support

Campaign: “Loon Loves You” on FreeFunder

Our dear beloved Loon is dead and we’re throwing her a party. She requested not to have a traditional memorial but she always encouraged us to be together. Anyone who knew her knew what it was like to dance and sing and laugh until your face hurt, to have dinner together and read poems aloud and pray and joke at the same time, to happily labor and fight side by side, and now we have to keep doing it.
— Read on www.freefunder.com/campaign/loon-loves-you

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
— Read on futurism.com/science-energy/us-military-gps-jamming-signal-medical-flight

Help Devion Continue His Education at JCSU | GiveSendGo

Devion Canty needs your support to continue his college education after being coerced by the administration into withdrawing from Texas State University (TXST) just days into his freshman year.
 
As was widely reported, Devion became the center of a viral harassment campaign after he was singled out for participating in a campus protest against a so-called “memorial” for Charlie Kirk. The video that spread across the internet captured only a few seconds of Devion’s response to the Kirk supporters, while selectively omitting the racist slurs hurled at him and other Black students, along with the violent confrontations that occurred throughout the event. Once the Governor of Texas shared the video on social media and publicly called for Devion’s expulsion, Texas State University administrators escorted him to a police station, where the presence of state-sanctioned violence was used as a backdrop to pressure him into leaving the university.
— Read on www.givesendgo.com/help-devion-continue-his-education

2027 STRIKE! — JLS

Fundamentally, this is a human rights crisis. The United States cages more human beings than any nation on earth. Behind the razors, we are stripped of our humanity, exploited for forced labor, and treated as raw material for state and corporate profit.

Jailhouse Lawyers Speak (JLS), a prisoner human rights organization, calls on all prisoners in federal and state prisons, county jails, and immigration detention to join the National Prisoners’ Human Rights Strike, running nationwide from May 1 (International Workers’ Day) through June 19 (Juneteenth), 2027.
— Read on www.jailhouselawyersspeak.com/new-page